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NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment rate declined by two-tenths of a percent in April to its lowest rate in more than a year. The key labor market rate now stands at 5.4 percent. Analysts judged the monthly employment report weak though, because business payrolls expanded only slightly

Linda walks a portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal with

In Los Angeles, arrests are markedly down over the past few years. No one knows exactly why, though there's no shortage of opinions. NPR's Mandelit DelBarco says olice chief Willie Williams attributes it to better policing, especially community policing involving citizens. But police officers say the fallout from the Rodney King beating and ensuing riots have made them less enthusiastic in pursuing suspects.

Commentator Bob Mondello takes a look at two movies that were honored at last week's Academy Awards. The Oscar for Best Documentary went to "Anne Frank Remembered," which is just beginning to appear in theaters. Last week also marked the American debut of a German drama called "Stalingrad," about the doomed Nazi battle to crush the Soviet Union.

the federal health insurance program for the poor, NPR's Vicky Que looks at a trend in some states to cut back or eliminate their own medical assistance programs which provide health care to the unemployed and working poor who are not covered by Medicaid. Is it a harbinger of what they might do with the federal program?

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Air Force T-43 carrying Secretary Ron Brown and delegation wasn't equipped with the so called black box or flight data recorder. The pentagon says that's because the aircraft was procured as a training aircraft...and so it didn't come with that euipment as civilian aircraft do.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how investigators go about trying to link a suspect to a bomb. Experts look for tell tale signs that distinguish one bomb from another, and then look for clues that tie those unique characteristics to a suspect.

Daniel talks with Robert Samuelson, author of "The Good Life And Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" (Times Books). Samuelson says the current pessimism that many Americans feel is related to a post-World War Two optimism. He says we've turned the so-called "American Dream" into a fantasy of a Utopian Society in which there are no social or economic problems. But, he says, we cannot expect to solve our problems once and for all - that we'll always need to deal with them.

Today, Israeli troops shelled the headquarters a battalion of U-N peacekeeping troops in South Lebannon. The compound was filled with dozens of refugees. At least seventy-four people are reported dead and many others wounded. Robert Siegel talks with U-N spokesman Timur (TEE-more) Goksel (GOCK-sull) from his office in Southern Lebanon about the shelling. Mr. Goksel describes the compound that was hit and the refugees who were seeking shelter there.

NPR'S SUNNI KHALID REPORTS FROM LEBANON ON THE COUNTRY'S SKEPTICISM THAT ANY CEASEFIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS WILL HOLD.